"Telstar (instrumental) ""Telstar"" is a 1962 instrumental written and produced by Joe Meek for the English band the Tornados. The track reached number 1 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in December 1962 (the second British recording to reach number 1 on that chart in the year, after ""Stranger on the Shore"" in May), and was also a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart. It was the second instrumental single to hit number 1 in 1962 on both the US and UK weekly charts. The record was named after the Telstar communications satellite, which was launched into orbit"
"number one on the US Hot 100. All were preceded by British jazz musician Kenny Ball peaking at #2 on 17 March 1962 on the Hot 100 with the instrumental ""Midnight in Moscow"". Some observers have noted that US teenagers were growing tired of singles-oriented pop acts like Fabian. The Mods and Rockers, two youth ""gangs"" in mid-1960s Britain, also had an impact in British Invasion music. Bands with a Mod aesthetic became the most popular, but bands able to balance both (e.g. the Beatles) were also successful. In October 1963, the first newspaper articles about the frenzy in England"
"first record by a British group to reach number one in the US Hot 100. British rock and roll declined sharply in the face of the new beat music after 1962. While some of the most successful acts, most notably Cliff Richard, were able to hang on to positions in the chart, British rock and roll virtually disappeared from the chart, as beat and then R&B based groups began to dominate. Many British rock and rollers continued their careers, and occasional bands specialised in the form, but mainstream success for the genre was rare. There have been periodic revivals of"
"to replicate American rock and roll mostly failed, the trad jazz–inspired skiffle craze, with its do it yourself attitude, was the starting point of several British Billboard singles. Young British groups started to combine various British and American styles in different parts of the U.K., such as the 1962 movement in Liverpool known as Merseybeat or the ""beat boom"". That same year featured three instrumentals, each from an act with British roots, to reach the Hot 100's summit. This included the Tornados' instrumental ""Telstar"", written and produced by Joe Meek, becoming the first record by a British group to reach"
"April 7, 1962, during a 15-week run on the chart. It was a number one hit on the Top 100 Best Sellers chart in April 1962 as published by ""Cashbox"". It charted at number one in both Canada and in New Zealand. ""Johnny Angel"" also peaked at number 41 on the UK Singles chart. It sold over one-million copies and was awarded a gold disc. British pop singer Patti Lynn released a cover version of ""Johnny Angel"" for the Fontana Records label in March 1962. It was produced by Harry Robinson. Her version of the song charted on the UK"
"number one by a British group. Up to that point, and since World War II, there had only been three British names that topped the U.S. chart: in May 1962 ""Stranger on the Shore"" by clarinetist Mr. Acker Bilk; the second was ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"" by Laurie London (1958), whilst the first was ""Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"" by Vera Lynn (1952). There have been numerous other artists who recorded ""Telstar."" Most notable are: Telstar (instrumental) ""Telstar"" is a 1962 instrumental written and produced by Joe Meek for the English band the Tornados. The track reached number"
"February, the Beatles finally achieved their first number 1 in ""Billboard"", emulating the success of another British group, the Tornados with ""Telstar"", which topped the ""Billboard"" chart for three weeks in December 1962. ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" finally relinquished the number 1 spot after seven weeks, succeeded by the song they had knocked off the top in Britain: ""She Loves You"". ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" sold around five million copies in the US alone. The replacement of themselves at the top of the US charts was the first time since Elvis Presley in 1956, with ""Love"
"song went to number 1 in the US in March 1962 and held that position for three weeks. Besides topping the U.S. popular music charts, it also became number 2 in the United Kingdom. It sold more than one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Channel had four more singles on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, including ""Number One Man"" (which peaked at number 52), ""Come On Baby"" (number 98), ""Going Back to Louisiana"" (number 89), and ""Mr. Bus Driver"" (number 90), but none of them were as successful as ""Hey! Baby"", and he is considered a one-hit wonder."
"countries as well. The song topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart on July 14, 1962, and remained there for four weeks. The single was also the first number-one hit for Epic Records. ""Billboard"" ranked the record No. 4 in their year end ranking ""Top 100 Singles of 1962"" and No. 36 in their year end ranking of the top Rhythm and Blues records of 1962. The song was also ranked No. 17 on ""Cash Box""s ""Top 100 Chart Hits of 1962"". In the UK, a cover version by Northern Irish singer Ronnie Carroll reached No. 3 on the ""Record"
"in 1962 on both the American and UK Singles Chart. It stayed on the US pop chart for eleven weeks. In 1975, ""Sealed With a Kiss"" was reissued as a single in the UK and became a surprise #7 hit (the song, revived by Australian Jason Donovan, charted #1 in the UK in 1989). Another 1962 hit was ""Ginny Come Lately"", which reached #21 on the U.S. chart and #5 in the UK. Hyland's 1962 Top 30 hit ""Warmed-Over Kisses (Leftover Love)"" incorporated elements of country music into his work, which continued with singles including ""I May Not Live to"
"rose to #5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 early in 1962. The record also reached #2 on the R&B chart and #4 in the UK Singles Chart, selling over 1 million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. In 1991, it was ranked 176th in the RIAA-compiled list of Songs of the Century. In 1962, she toured the UK as support act on the Everly Brothers tour. The follow-up, a version of George and Ira Gershwin's ""But Not for Me"" from the musical ""Girl Crazy"", reached #41 in the U.S. pop charts and #45 in the UK."
"best known number one hits on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 Singles Charts were ""Blue Moon"" by the Marcels in the spring of 1961 (also a number one in the UK, where Colpix was licensed to Pye International), and ""Johnny Angel"" by Shelley Fabares in the spring of 1962. Bernadette Castro recorded for the label ""Get Rid of Him""/""A Girl in Love Forgives"" and ""His Lips Get in the Way""/""Sportscar Sally"". Singer Jo Ann Greer, who dubbed several of the actresses at Columbia Pictures, recorded two albums with the studio's musical director, Morris Stoloff: ""Soundtracks, Voices and Themes"" and ""The Naked"
"number 1). It is also the first song, and one of only nine, to reach US number 1 by two different artists. In late 1962, Steve Lawrence released the second recording of this song (Bobby Vee recorded it first in March 1962). The single reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in January 1963 and remained in the top position for two weeks. This recording also spent six weeks atop the U.S. Easy Listening chart. It also went to number 1 on the New Zealand Lever chart and number 18 in Canada. Mark Wynter's 1962 cover of the song"
"first period of British success in the late 1960s started with ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" and the band added drummer Colin Petersen and guitarist Vince Melouney to their line up. They toured Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as the US in August 1968. The band's first UK No. 1 was ""Massachusetts"" which features Gibb on lead vocal. On the day it reached number one, 5 November 1967, Robin Gibb recalled to ""The Mail on Sunday"" on 1 November 2009: On 13 June 1968, Gibb recorded demos for seven songs, accompanying himself on guitar. The tape listed Robin"
"the record. The album has never been reissued on a compact disc in the United States, but has been reissued as such in the United Kingdom. In addition, the album is also available on extended play in the United States and Brazil. ""All Alone Am I"" spawned its title track as the first single. Released in September 1962, the single reached No.3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and became Lee's first single to chart on the ""Billboard"" Easy Listening chart, reaching No.1 in late-1962. In addition, the single also reached No.7 on the singles chart in the United Kingdom in"
"1952 in British music This is a summary of 1952 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. This year was a turning point for music in not only the UK, but all over the world. The first official UK Singles Chart began in November 1952, compiled by the ""NME"". This made the United Kingdom the first country in the world to have an official singles chart and created it in many other countries, with the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 era beginning in 1958 in the U.S. The singles chart quickly became a phenomenon and record"
"ever since, especially with Valentine. ""House of the Rising Sun"" was a trans-Atlantic hit: after reaching the top of the UK pop singles chart in July 1964, it topped the U.S. pop singles chart two months later, on September 5, 1964, where it stayed for three weeks, and became the first British Invasion number one unconnected with The Beatles. It was the group's breakthrough hit in both countries and became their signature song. The song was also a hit in a number of other countries, including Ireland, where it reached No. 10 and dropped off the charts one week later."
"not charted in the United States, but reached No.12 in the UK. Lee had two Top Ten hits in the UK that were not released as singles in her native country: the first, ""Speak to Me Pretty"" peaked at No.3 in May 1962 and was her greatest hit in the UK by chart placing, swiftly followed by ""Here Comes That Feeling"", which reached No.5 in the summer of 1962. The latter was issued as the B-side to ""Everybody Loves Me But You"" in the United States (which peaked at No.6 on the Billboard Hot 100); however, ""Here Comes That Feeling"""
"Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the ""Record Mirror"" chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the ""Melody Maker"" chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the ""Record Retailer"" chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the ""Music Week"" chart from then onwards. In January 1989 the compilation album chart started, and compilation albums were excluded from the main chart. The first number one album was Frank Sinatra's ""Songs for Swingin' Lovers""."
"""Record Retailer"" Top 50. It was the UK's biggest-selling single of 1962, the biggest-selling instrumental single of all time, and appears fifty-eighth in the official UK list of best-selling singles issued in 2002. It had sold 1.16 million copies as of November 2012. One of songwriter and music publisher Robert Mellin's major songwriting successes came in 1962, when he wrote lyrics for Acker Bilk's instrumental smash ""Stranger on the Shore,"" allowing it to be covered by vocal acts including Andy Williams and the Drifters. On 26 May 1962, ""Stranger on the Shore"" became the first British recording to reach number"
"had hits in the UK in the 1960s with songs such as ""So Much in Love"", a US chart topper and million-seller in 1963, ""Wonderful! Wonderful!"", a remake of the Johnny Mathis classic hit from 1957, ""Somewhere"", then in 1970s with ""You Little Trustmaker"" and ""Ms Grace"". The last of these became the group's biggest UK hit, reaching Number One in the UK Singles Chart in 1975, but barely dented the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, long after the success of ""So Much in Love"". ""Ms Grace"", while only charting modestly in the US, was and remains a regional hit with the"
"single, which was having a resurgence of popularity following intense media coverage of the group. Taking two weeks to dislodge its predecessor, ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" stayed at number 1 for five weeks and remained in the UK top 50 for 21 weeks in total. It was also the group's first American number 1 hit, entering the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart on 18 January 1964 at number 45 and starting the British invasion of the American music industry. By 1 February it topped the Hot 100, and stayed there for seven weeks before being replaced by ""She Loves"
"August 22, 1952, and lasted 12 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 4. A cover version by Jo Stafford became the most popular version. Issued by Columbia Records as catalog number 39811, it was Stafford's biggest hit, topping the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom (the first song by a female singer to top the UK Singles Chart). It first entered the US chart on August 1, 1952 and remained there for 24 weeks. In the UK, it appeared in the first ever UK chart of 14 November 1952 (then a top 12) and reached"
"while strumming a guitar, suggested they do it like a country song. Richard and his band agreed and duly rerecorded the song with the slower tempo. The song was recorded in April 1959 by Cliff Richard and the Drifters and produced by Norrie Paramor. It was first released in the UK in May 1959 on the ""Serious Charge"" (EP) soundtrack before being released as a single in July 1959. It was number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for six weeks from July, becoming the biggest selling single of 1959 in the UK with sales of 770,000. Richard was awarded"
"complex musical ideas and a distinctive sound. In mid-1962 the Rolling Stones started as one of a number of groups increasingly showing blues influence, along with bands like the Animals and the Yardbirds. During 1963, the Beatles and other beat groups, such as the Searchers and the Hollies, achieved great popularity and commercial success in Britain itself. British rock broke through to mainstream popularity in the United States in January 1964 with the success of the Beatles. ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" was the band's first No. 1 hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, starting the British Invasion"
"UK, and again reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for the week of 5 February 2005. The re-release held the record for the lowest selling number-one single in UK chart history until Orson's ""No Tomorrow"" in 2006. The song also appears in the TV mini-series ""Elvis"". ""It's Now Or Never"" entered the US Billboard Hot 100 top 40 at no.14 on July 25 1960. After two weeks at no.3, the song climbed to no.1 for a five week stay, beginning August 15th. In that same week, the B-side to the single - ""A Mess Of Blues"" - also"
"1952 included Bing Crosby, Guy Mitchell, Mario Lanza, Rosemary Clooney, and Kay Starr, who had hits with ""The Isle of Innisfree"", ""Feet Up"", ""Because You're Mine"", ""Half as Much"", and ""Comes A-Long A-Love"". 1952 in British music This is a summary of 1952 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. This year was a turning point for music in not only the UK, but all over the world. The first official UK Singles Chart began in November 1952, compiled by the ""NME"". This made the United Kingdom the first country in the world to"
"in the UK chart. Elvis Presley reached number 2 in the UK chart with ""Heartbreak Hotel"" in 1956 and had nine more singles in the Top 30 that year. His first number 1 was ""All Shook Up"" in 1957 and there would be more chart-toppers for him and for Buddy Holly and the Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis in the next two years. The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce exact copies of American records. These were often recorded with session musicians and, even if note perfect, lacked the energy and spontaneity that characterised"
"Their first record, a rocked-up version of the can-can music from Offenbach's ""Orpheus in the Underworld"", produced by Joe Meek at Decca's studios in Hampstead and entitled ""Can Can 62"", rose to # 31 after entering the UK chart in November 1962. The group released several further singles on Decca in 1963 and 1964, but none became hits. Nevertheless, the group were a popular live act and were chosen as a support act to the Beatles on their UK tour in November and December 1963. They also appeared on national TV shows including ""Ready Steady Go!"" and ""Thank Your Lucky"
"Britain alone. The band re-recorded ""Ciao Baby"" in 1969. Their several radio hits in England made little impact on the charts, but ""You've Got to Be Loved"", which was released on October 13, 1967, reached number 58 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1968, followed by ""Run to Me"" making it to number 121 on the ""Billboard"" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts, number 41 on ""Cashbox"", and number 33 on ""Record World"". The band, however, was unable to promote the single in the US, so no other national hits followed. Their lineup changed considerably in 1967 and again"
"1965, becoming the biggest hit single in Britain that year and selling over a million copies in the UK alone. The recording is the third best selling song of the 1960s in Britain; at the time it was the UK's biggest selling single by a solo artist, and remains one of the biggest selling singles of all time. Dodd was selected to perform the song on ""A Jubilee of Music"" on BBC One on 31 December 1976, a celebration of the key pop successes of the Queen's first 25 years as Britain's monarch. Dodd had two further UK top ten"
"April 1962 to coincide with the film's premiere. The record sold very well, especially for an EP in the Sixties. The title song received Top 40 radio air-play and reached #15 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart. It became a platinum record. The extended play record was the number-one EP in the UK for 20 weeks. Follow That Dream (EP) Follow That Dream is an EP by American singer Elvis Presley, containing four songs from the motion picture of the same name. The EP was released by RCA Victor in May 1962. It was simultaneously certified Gold and Platinum"
"the song reached number 1 on April 24, 1959, and remained in that position for three weeks, becoming the first posthumous number 1 hit in UK chart history. Holly would continue to achieve posthumous chart success in the UK well into the 1960s. In the United States it reached number 13 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It was Holly's last Top 20 hit in the United States. Internationally, the song reached number 1 in both Canada and Ireland, and also peaked at number 2 in the Australian charts. Linda Ronstadt covered ""It Doesn't Matter Anymore"" in 1975. As the"